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Disable boot sound?

Booting from a Live CD. How would you disable the sounds? On BT3 you could edit the boot menu with a --nosound and it would disables sounds. It sort of fits with the whole... "The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear..."

Again. Wait for someone who knows for sure. Don't break your system on my account.

-- Okay. I did a simple experiment on my machine. I issued the command:

Code:

~# rmmod snd_hda_intel

Then I browsed to SomaFM and opened one of the stations. The station opened in vlc, without sound.

Then I went back to the terminal and issued the command:

Code:

~# modprobe snd_hda_intel

Back in vlc, I stopped the streaming station, and then started it. Voila! Sound was back.

That being said, if I were trying to recompile a custom BackTrack DVD on my system, I'd use that blog post up there, add the line:

blacklist snd_hda_intel

to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, recompile the ISO and go from there. That's all theory, of course.

Last edited by ColForbin; 01-21-2010 at 01:38 PM.

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Re: Disable boot sound?

Originally Posted by Barry

That's all fine and dandy, until he reboots. He's using the live cd.

I missed that part... Sorry.

@OPCustomizing Backtrack - Offensive Security
You can use some of the members methods associated with this tutorial to make a new liveCD with sound disabled by default.
Or you can just disable the boot theme and leave all the rest active, if that's what you want (title:disable boot sound). I believe there is an option to do this on BT's settings page.

Last edited by Snayler; 01-21-2010 at 09:11 PM.
Reason: Some more info added